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ten hours; and the girl nine hours; theother two, one of which was six years old,a girl, and a girl of seven years, complainedof severe pains in the epigastric region.They all recovered, after three days’ illness.I am anxious to communicate to you thisfact, being conviuced that your publicationis read at all the scholastic establishmentsin this part of the country. 1 hope youwilfallow these lines a corner in your LiteraryChronicle, where they, may contribute toput the unwary on their guard, against thedeleterious effects of flavouring culinarydishes with that baneful herb,, the CherryLaurel.”

“ I am, with respect, your’s, Sir,

“ Thomas Lidiard* *.”

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* Literary Chronicle, No. 22, p. 346.—1819.